{"id":35399,"date":"2019-03-14T17:23:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35399"},"modified":"2019-03-14T17:23:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:23:38","slug":"new-premier-urges-algerians-to-accept-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35399","title":{"rendered":"New premier urges Algerians to accept dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"60\">\n<p>\nBRUSSELS: The UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees said on Thursday it needed $1.2 billion in funding for 2019 as it faced its first full year without US support.<br \/>Pierre Kraehenbuehl, who heads the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinians across the Middle East, said it had had to turn to countries as poor as Afghanistan last year for help after Washington withdrew its funding in August.<br \/>\u201cThere is no US funding for the first time and no indication that they are reconsidering,\u201d he told Reuters on the margins of a donors conference for Syria.<br \/>\u201cI can\u2019t think of a time, even in the 1950s, 60s or 70s, when we were without the US &#8230; they built schools, health centers and that is very important to recognize,\u201d Kraehenbuehl said.<br \/>Washington\u2019s decision to pull all funding further heightened tensions between the Palestinian leadership and the administration of US President Donald Trump.<br \/>Trump at the time cited US and Israeli criticism of UNRWA\u2019s method of counting people as refugees \u2014 which they say has created a growing number of agency beneficiaries.<br \/>UNRWA provides services to about 5 million Palestinian refugees across Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank and Gaza. Most are descendants of about 700,000 Palestinians who were driven out of their homes or fled fighting in the 1948 war that led to Israel\u2019s creation.<br \/>Gulf states, Norway, Turkey, Japan and Canada stepped in with funding last year, while Afghanistan donated $1 million, Kraehenbuehl said.<br \/>He said it was unlikely that all donors would give the same amounts again this year, putting an increased burden on Europe.<br \/>Kraehenbuehl said Trump\u2019s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital, and the resulting tensions with the Palestinians, had prompted the US to halt funding to UNRWA.<br \/>Kraehenbuehl warned of the risks to 280,000 school children in Gaza who depend on the UN agency.<br \/>\u201cWhere do they go if they no longer have access to UNRWA education? What happens? We know: the levels of frustration (in the region) will grow,\u201d he said.<br \/>\u201cIt is crucial to keep children in school to have a personal horizon in the absence of a political horizon,\u201d he said, referring to the stalled Middle East peace process.<br \/>Washington\u2019s peace efforts are being led by Jared Kushner, Trump\u2019s senior adviser and son-in-law. Kraehenbuehl said he had not been consulted in drawing up the strategy, which has yet to be made public.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: The UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees said on Thursday it needed $1.2 billion in funding for 2019 as it faced its first full year without US support.Pierre Kraehenbuehl, who heads the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinians across the Middle East, said it had had to turn to countries as poor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}